Kumar Ankit

Kumar Ankit

Associate Professor,
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
  • kumar.ankit@asu.edu
  • Phone: 480-965-4541
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  • ENGRC 265 Tempe, AZ 85287
  • Mail code: 6106
    Campus: Tempe
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Kumar Ankit is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at the Arizona State University. He received an integrated dual bachelor's/master's degree in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) in 2010 and obtained a doctorate (2015) in mechanical engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he graduated summa cum laude. Following graduation, he was appointed as Group Leader at KIT where his group specialized in Quantitative Phase-field Modeling. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University where he worked in the area of modeling and simulations of pattern formation in vapor-deposited films.

Dr. Ankit is a recipient of the 2018 Robert Cahn prize which is jointly awarded by Springer Nature and the Journal of Materials Science, the 2016 German Research Foundation's (DFG) Young Investigator award, and the 2022 National Science Foundation's (NSF) CAREER award. In 2020, he, along with his collaborators at ASU and the University of Arizona - Tucson, co-founded the MateriAlZ Seminar series to promote student engagement in MSE through interactive sessions, increase the nationwide and international visibility of the Arizona universities and provide a platform for active discussions in different areas of MSE.

Ankit's group at ASU specializes in the development and application of mesoscopic modeling approaches and their integration with continuum approaches for both fundamental and applied research in microstructure science and engineering. His group is currently interested in deciphering computational pathways to optimally design microstructure processing routes. Target areas include solidification, solid-state transformations and grain coarsening in multicomponent alloys and geomaterials, electromigration-induced damage, and self-organization in polymers and vapor-deposited films.

Education
  • Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) Summa Cum Laude, Mechanical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 2015
  • B.Tech/M.Tech.Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-BHU 2010

 

Research Website URL
https://ankit.engineering.asu.edu
Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vCHqDbcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Research Interests

My research group specializes in the development and application of mesoscopic, computational modeling techniques and their integration with continuum approaches for both fundamental and applied research in microstructure science and engineering. Our expertise lies in the quantitative phase-field modeling of microstructural evolution in materials. Areas of application include solidification, solid-state transformations and grain coarsening in multicomponent alloys and geomaterials, electromigration-induced damage, and self-organization in polymers and vapor-deposited films.

Publications

Refereed research papers

  1. Wu, P., Farmer, W., Iquebal, A., Sarfraz, A., and K. Ankit (2023). A novel data-driven emulator for predicting electromigration-mediated damage in polycrystalline interconnects. Journal of Electronic Materials 52, 2746–2761. doi: 10.1007/s11664-023-10237-9.

  2. Iquebal, A., Wu, P., Sarfraz, A., and K. Ankit (2022). Emulating the evolution of phase separating microstructures using low-dimensional tensor decomposition and nonlinear regression. MRS Bulletin 48. doi: 10.1557/s43577-022-00443-x.

  3. Raghavan, R. and K. Ankit (2022). Phase-field modeling of nanostructured self-organization in vapor-deposited ternary alloy films. Modelling and Simulations in Materials Science & Engineering 30(8). doi: 10.1088/1361-651X/aca03f.

  4. Glicksman, M. E., Ankit, K., & Wu, P. (2022). Capillary effects on curved solid–liquid interfaces: An overview. Journal of Crystal Growth, 126871. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2022.126871.

  5. Glicksman, M. E., Wu, P., & Ankit, K. (2022). Periodic Grain Boundary Grooves: Analytic Model, Formation Energies, and Phase-Field Comparison. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s11669-022-00967-4.

  6. Roy, A., Luktuke, A., Chawla, N., & Ankit, K. (2022). Predicting the Cu6Sn5 Growth Kinetics During Thermal Aging of Cu-Sn Solder Joints Using Simplistic Kinetic Modeling. Journal of Electronic Materials, 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s11664-022-09643-2.

  7. Chen, P. E., Raghavan, R., Zheng, Y., Li, H., Ankit, K., & Jiao, Y. (2022). Quantifying microstructural evolution via time-dependent reduced-dimension metrics based on hierarchical n-point polytope functions. Physical Review E, 105(2), 025306. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.025306.

  8. Glicksman, M.E., P. Wu, and K. Ankit. Surface Laplacian of interfacial thermochemical potential: its role in solid-liquid pattern formation. npj Microgravity 7, 41 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41526-021-00168-2

  9. Raghavan, R., W. Farmer, L. Mushongera and K. Ankit (2021). Multiphysics approaches for modeling nanostructural evolution during physical vapor deposition of phase-separating alloy films. Computational Materials Science 199, 110724. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110724

  10. Raghavan, R., P.-E. Chen, Y. Jiao, and K. Ankit (2021). Phase-field modeling and n-point polytope characterization of nanostructured protuberances formed during vapor-deposition of phase-separating alloy films. Journal of Applied Physics 129, 245301. doi: 10.1063/5.0047928.

  11. Raghavan, R., A. Mukherjee, and K. Ankit (2020). Nanostructural evolution in vapor deposited phase-separating binary alloy films of non-equimolar compositions: Insights from a 3D phase-field approach. Journal of Applied Physics 128, 175303. doi: 10.1063/5.0007385.

  12. Farmer, W. and K. Ankit (2020). Phase-field simulations of electromigration-induced defects in non-columnar grain microstructures. Journal of Applied Physics 127(17) 175301. doi: 10.1063/1.5145104.

  13. Glicksman, M. and K. Ankit (2020). Thermodynamic behavior of solid-liquid grain boundary grooves. Philosophical Magazine In Press. doi: 10.1080/14786435.2020.1740340.

  14. Ankit, K. and M. Glicksman (2020). Growth competition during columnar solidification of seaweed microstructures. The European Physical Journal E 43 (14). Selected for Journal cover page: February 2020. doi: 10.1140/epje/i2020-11940-5.

  15. Ankit, K., B. Derby, R. Raghavan, A. Misra, and M. Demkowicz (2019). 3-D phase-field simulations of self-organized composite morphologies in physical vapor deposited phase-separating binary alloys. Journal of Applied Physics 126 (6). doi: 10.1063/1.5110410.

  16. Glicksman, M. and K. Ankit (2019). Capillary-mediated solid-liquid energy fields: their detection with phase-field method. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 529, 012027.doi: 10.1088/1757-899x/529/1/012027.

  17. Laxmipathy, V., F. Wang, M. Selzer, B. Nestler, and K. Ankit (2019). Influence of melt convection on the morphological evolution of seaweed structures: Insights from phase-field simulations. Computational Materials Science 170, 109196. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.109196.

  18. Amos, P., A. Bhattacharya, B. Nestler, and K. Ankit (2018). Mechanisms of pearlite spheroidization: Insights from 3D phase-field simulations. Acta Materialia 161, 400–411. doi: 10.1016/j. actamat.2018.09.043.

  19. Glicksman, M. and K. Ankit (2018). Measuring Solid-Liquid Interfacial Energy Fields: Diffusion-Limited Patterns. Journal of Materials Science 53(15). Awarded Robert W. Cahn prize 2018, 10955–10978. doi: 10.1007/s10853-018-2356-7.

  20. Mukherjee, A., K. Ankit, M. Selzer, and B. Nestler (2018). Electromigration-induced surface drift and slit propagation in polycrystalline interconnects: Insights from phase-field simulations. Physical Review Applied 9, 044004. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.044004.

  21. Mushongera, L., P. Amos, B. Nestler, and K. Ankit (2018). Phase-field simulations of pearlitic divergence in Fe–C–Mn steels. Acta Materialia 150, 78–87. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.02.059.

  22. Prajapati, N., M. Selzer, B. Nestler, B. Busch, C. Hilgers, and K. Ankit (2018). Three-Dimensional Phase-field Investigation of Pore space Cementation and Permeability in Quartz Sandstone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123. doi: 10.1029/2018JB015618.

  23. Nani, E., B. Nestler, and K. Ankit (2018). Analyzing the cooperative growth of intermetallic phases with a curved solidification front. Acta Materialia 159, 135–149. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat. 2018.08.017.

  24. Xing, H., H. Chen, K. Ankit, X. Dong, and K. Jin (2018). Growth direction selection of tilted dendritic arrays in directional solidification over a wide range of pulling velocity: A phase- field study. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 117, 1107–1114. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.10.086.

  25. Bhattacharya, A., K. Ankit, and B. Nestler (2017). Phase-field simulations of curvature-induced cascading of Widmansta ̈tten-ferrite plates. Acta Materialia 123, 317–328. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.10.035.

  26. Glicksman, M. and K. Ankit (2017). Detection of Capillary-Mediated Energy Fields on a Grain Boundary Groove: Solid–Liquid Interface Perturbations. Metals 7(12), 547. doi: 10.3390/met7120547.

  27. Ankit, K., H. Xing, M. Selzer, B. Nestler, and M. Glicksman (2016). Surface rippling during so- lidification of binary polycrystalline alloy: Insights from 3-D phase-field simulations. Journal of Crystal Growth 457, 52–69. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2016.05.033.

  28. Meller, C. et al. (2016). Integrated research as key to the development of a sustainable geother- mal energy technology. Energy Technology (invited review) 5(7), 965–1006. doi: 10.1002/ente. 201600579.

  29. Mukherjee, A., K. Ankit, R. Mukherjee, and B. Nestler (2016). Phase-field modeling of grain- boundary grooving under electromigration. Journal of Electronic Materials 45 (12), 6233–6246. doi: 10.1007/s11664-016-4848-z.

  30. Mukherjee, A., K. Ankit, A. Reiter, M. Selzer, and B. Nestler (2016). Electric-field-induced lamellar to hexagonally perforated lamellar transition in diblock copolymer thin films: Kinetic pathways. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 25609–25620. doi: 10.1039/C6CP04903F.

  31. Mukherjee, A., R. Mukherjee, K. Ankit, A. Bhattacharya, and B. Nestler (2016). Influence of substrate interaction and confinement on electric-field-induced transition in symmetric block- copolymer thin films. Physical Review E 93(3), 032504. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032504.

  32. Ankit, K., T. Mittnacht, R. Mukherjee, and B. Nestler (2015). Evolution of mixed cementite morphologies during non-cooperative eutectoid transformation in Fe-C steels. Computational Materials Science 108 (B), 342–347. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2015.03.002.

  33. Ankit, K., R. Mukherjee, and B. Nestler (2015). Deviations from cooperative growth mode during eutectoid transformation: Mechanisms of polycrystalline eutectoid evolution in Fe-C steels. Acta Materialia 97, 316–324. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.050.

  34. Ankit, K., M. Selzer, C. Hilgers, and B. Nestler (2015). Phase-field modeling of fracture cementation processes in 3-D. Journal of Petroleum Science Research 4 (2), 79–96. doi: 10.12783/jpsr. 2015.0402.04.

  35. Ankit, K., J. Urai, and B. Nestler (2015). Microstructural evolution in bitaxial crack-seal veins: A phase-field study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 120(5), 3096–3118. doi: 10.1002/ 2015JB011934.

  36. Ankit, K., R. Mukherjee, T. Mittnacht, and B. Nestler (2014). Deviations from cooperative growth mode during eutectoid transformation: Insights from a phase-field approach. Acta Materialia 81, 204–210. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2014.08.015.

  37. Ankit, K., A. Choudhury, C. Qin, S. Schulz, M. McDaniel, and B. Nestler (2013). Theoretical and numerical study of lamellar eutectoid growth influenced by volume diffusion. Acta Materialia 61(11), 4245–4253. doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2013.03.050.

  38. Ankit, K., B. Nestler, M. Selzer, and M. Reichardt (2013). Phase-field study of grain boundary tracking behavior in crack-seal microstructures. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 166(6), 1709–1723. doi: 10.1007/s00410-013-0950-x.

  39. Ankit, K. and N. Prasad (2011). Simulation of creep cavity growth in Inconel 718 alloy. Materials Science and Engineering A 528(12), 4209–4216. doi: 10.1016/j.msea.2011.02.012.

  40. Fleck, M., L. Mushongera, D. Pilipenko, K. Ankit, and H. Emmerich (2011). On phase-field modeling with a highly anisotropic interfacial energy. European Physical Journal Plus 126(10), 1–11.doi: 10.1140/epjp/i2011-11095-7.

  41. Ankit, K. (2009). Remaining creep life assessment techniques based on creep cavitation modeling. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 40(5), 1013–1018. doi: 10.1007 / s11661 - 009 - 9781-9.

Books

  1. Ankit, K. (2016). Phase-field modeling of microstructural pattern formation in alloys and geological veins. Vol. 58. Series of Institute of Applied Materials, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. KIT Scientific Publishing, 242 pages. doi: 10.5445/KSP/1000052440.

Research Activity
  • Kumar Ankit*, CAREER: Understanding the origins of pearlite discontinuities in eutectoid microstructures: Modeling & Experiments. NSF-DMR (08/15/2022-07/31/2027)
  • Nikhilesh Chawla*,​ Yang Jiao, Yi Ren, Kumar Ankit, Houlong Zhung, AI Institute: Planning: Novel Neural Architectures for 4D Materials Science​. NSF-DMR (9/1/2020 - 8/31/2022)
  • Kumar Ankit*, Nikhilesh Chawla, Devising a data-driven simulator for high-throughput prediction of electromigration-mediated damage rate in polycrystalline interconnects. NSF-CMMI (08/15/2020-08/14/2021)
  • Kumar Ankit*, Nikhilesh Chawla, 4D Characterization of Damage in Interconnects: Experiment and Simulation. NSF-CMMI (08/15/2018-08/14/2021)
  • Kumar Ankit*, Martin Glicksman, Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Crystal Growth Dynamics. NASA-PSI (08/1/2018-07/31/2020)​
  • Kumar Ankit​*, Microstructural pattern formation during eutectoid transformation in multicomponent steels, German Research Foundation’s Young Investigator’s Grant (03/01/2016-02/28/2019)

* Principal Investigator

Teaching Website URL
https://ankit.engineering.asu.edu/#teaching
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 561 Kinetics&Phase Trans in Solids
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
2024 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
2024 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
BDE 792 Research
2024 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
APM 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
2023 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
2023 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
BDE 792 Research
2023 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 591 Seminar
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
APM 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
2022 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
MSE 591 Seminar
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
2022 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
BDE 792 Research
2022 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 591 Seminar
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
APM 792 Research
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 792 Research
2021 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
MSE 523 Structural&Mech Prop of Matrls
MSE 591 Seminar
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
2021 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 799 Dissertation
BDE 792 Research
2021 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 591 Seminar
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
APM 792 Research
2020 Fall
Course Number Course Title
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
MSE 799 Dissertation
MSE 792 Research
MSE 355 Structure and Defects
2020 Summer
Course Number Course Title
MSE 792 Research
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
2020 Spring
Course Number Course Title
MSE 335 Materials Kinetics
MSE 599 Thesis
MSE 792 Research
MSE 795 Continuing Registration
APM 792 Research
Honors / Awards
  • 2022 NSF Early Career Award (CAREER)
  • 2022 Editors’ choice award, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion 
  • 2018 Robert W. Cahn prize of Springer Nature and the Journal of Materials Science
  • 2016 Early Career Investigator Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History
  • Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
  • Mechanical Engineering (MEE)
  • Applied Mathematics (APM)
Service

Referee

  • Federal-agencies: 

ACS Petroleum Research Fund, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Scientific Journals: 

    Acta Materialia (Elsevier), Journal of Crystal Growth (Elsevier), Journal of Alloys & Compounds (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (Elsevier), Journal of Materials Science (Springer), Materials Research Letters (Taylor & Francis), Science and Technology of Welding and Joining (Taylor & Francis), Materials Science and Engineering A (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE), Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion (Springer), Materials Theory (Springer), Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (Elsevier), Journal of Materials Research (Cambridge University Press), Canadian Journal of Physics (NRC Research Press), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), Philosophical Magazine Letters (Taylor & Francis), European Journal of Physics E (Springer).

Organizational Activities

  • Co-founder and coordinator, MateriAlZ Seminar series (https://material-az.org)
  • Chair, MSE Seminar committee
  • Lead-organizer of the minisymposium titled Recent advances in phase-field modeling and analysis of microstructural evolution at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science 2018 (MS 18) in Portland, OR. 
Expertise Areas
Computational Modeling
Metals
Nanoscience and Material Physics
Thin Film Materials
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